Misdirect in a sentence as a verb

Though to be fair, nothing is as easy to misdirect as a twitter DM.

That's correct, but we should still not allow them to misdirect our attention while they tighten the screws.

They are only null if you don't already block or misdirect their other tracking methods.

Adding the word welfare serves only to confuse and misdirect the reader.

In the US you have a right against self incrimination, not a right to lie and misdirect. See Martha Stewart as an example, part of her conviction was making false statements to an investigator.

A major reason they persist and misdirect resources from those that are truly need, is because of those who blindly assume "every single person" is in need.

Trying to misdirect the argument from "there's widespread depression" to "it's probably something else" is exactly part of the problem. The OP is putting forward the same, tired arguments that "feeling like this is normal, get over it".

He could've seeded different locations to different newspapers, and could've even bought different plane tickets, and under different names, to misdirect the US government. He's probably smart enough to do all that.

> They also make it more difficult to misdirect people to a lookalike site via phishing. Even old people recognize that their login picture, normally prominently displayed, is missing.

The concept "peak oil" to me seems to misdirect the debate right off the bat. Obviously the question isn't "when do we run out of oil" but "how does oil supply given continually increasing demand affect oil price" and "what does rising oil price do to the rest of the economy?

Magicians misdirect the audience using similar tactics. This is the equivalent to a woman in a skimpy outfit walking around on the stage, and bending over in a low-cut dress, while the magician switches one object for another.

Placing the trackers where you want to misdirect the po-po is another option, of course, but it seems it was pulling a weapon, not having the tracker, that prompted the shooting. Not that being approached by uniformed or plainsclothed police under other circumstances might not elicit a similar response.

At 20 people, that person can become a huge liability - they will misdirect the team, demoralize other engineers, and eventually cause your best people to leave. My examples illustrate how you might identify people with an uncontrollable mean streak during the candidate process, and hence filter them out.

Such literalistic argument-making serves only to mislead and misdirect, and it contributes nothing to the conversation.

Additionally, the surreptitiously placed modification can wait for weeks or months, giving the attacker time to build a cover story or misdirect or accomplish any number of other goals.

As I understand it, you are attempting to misdirect via nit-pick. The comment you are replying to essentially asserted that the minimum wage is insufficient to cover the average total cost of living, expressed through the colloquialism of "feeding themselves and their families".

Given that, the rational, profit-maximizing thing for them to do is to stonewall, misdirect, bring out the lawyers, shoot the messenger, and generally continue to sell as many flawed locks as possible. We've all seen vendors do that in the past when faced with intractable, deep-seated defects in a product, so it wouldn't be unexpected or unreasonable to assume.

USGov has been given plenty of time to quell concerns and haven't done a particularly good job so I feel that Snowden is mostly, if not completely, correct and I can confidently consider the USGov/NSA as the real villains in the world attempting to misdirect everyone else with allegations of boogieman terrorists & spying from Russia/China/Nigeria/whatever. Not that I ever believed otherwise...

Misdirect definitions

verb

corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

verb

lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

See also: mislead misguide

verb

put a wrong address on; "misdirect the letter"

See also: misaddress